A small cluster of thunderstorms moved over portions of northwest Kansas during the evening, producing wind gusts over 70 mph and several reports of damage.
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The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
A small cluster of thunderstorms moved over portions of northwest Kansas during the evening, producing wind gusts over 70 mph and several reports of damage.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 27, 5:00 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 500 PM MDT WED JUL 27 2011 .DISCUSSION... 308 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 2011 17Z WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CONTINUING TO SHOW UPPER LEVEL RIDGE LOCATED OVER CENTRAL CONUS WITH AXIS GENERALLY ACROSS THE UPPER/MID MISS VALLEY AND TROUGH PROGRESSING ACROSS PAC NORTHWEST WITH SW FLOW ALOFT IN BETWEEN OVER CWA. SUBTROPICAL PLUME OF MOISTURE CONTINUES TO FLOW NORTHEASTWARD FROM AZ/NM NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS CWA AND INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST AROUND AFOREMENTIONED UPPER HIGH. AT THE SURFACE...WINDS ARE GENERALLY NORTHWEST ACROSS THE AREA BEHIND A COLD FRONT WHICH WAS QUASI-STATIONARY APPROX FROM EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS SOUTHWESTWARD TOWARDS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF KANSAS. PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN CONTINUES TO BE ONGOING PRECIP CHANCES MAINLY OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-FRIDAY)...UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CURRENTLY IN PLACE ACROSS THE CENTRAL CONUS WILL FLATTEN OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. THIS EVENING SFC WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO VEER TO THE NORTHEAST BY 00Z WHICH WILL CREATE SURFACE CONFLUENCE/CONVERGENCE ACROSS SOUTHWEST COLORADO. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INITIATE IN THIS AREA AND PROGRESS TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST INTO THE SOUTH/SOUTHWEST FA. STORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THE FRONT TO THE SE OF THE AREA BUT STORM MOTIONS SHOULD KEEP MOST IF NOT ALL OF THESE STORMS EAST. MAY TWEAK POPS SLIGHTLY IN A FEW AREAS FOR THIS EVENING BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING ONGOING POPS LOOK REASONABLE. OVERNIGHT BETTER LIFT ARRIVES WITH SOME LARGE SCALE FORCING FOR ASCENT NOTED ON 700-300MB DIV-Q FIELDS COUPLED WITH A 30-40KT 850MB LLJ NOTED. WILL RAISE POPS TO LIKELY ROUGHLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF/THIRD OF FA OVERNIGHT AS OPERATIONAL MODELS AND ENSEMBLE MEMBERS IN GOOD AGREEMENT GENERATING PRECIP IN THIS AREA AND CAN/T FIND A SOLID METEOROLOGICAL REASON TO DISAGREE. THURSDAY MORNING KEPT LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE FAR EAST BUT THIS MAY REQUIRE ADJUSTING DEPENDENT UPON FORWARD MOTION OF EXPECTED OVERNIGHT MCS AND TRAILING SUBSIDENCE. OTHERWISE CONVECTION/PRECIP SHOULD TAPER DURING THE MORNING. THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVE AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON EVE THE PATTERN WILL BE SIMILAR TO TODAY/S WITH CONVECTION FORMING ALONG STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTHWEST KS/SOUTHEAST COLO AND SPREADING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS FA...WITH A SLIGHT WEIGHT TO POPS AND QPF ACROSS SOUTHEAST FA NEAR FRONTAL ZONE. IN THE EXTENDED (SAT-TUE)...INITIALLY ZONAL FLOW UNDER NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF EAST-WEST UPPER LEVEL HIGH ACROSS SOUTHERN CONUS WILL AMPLIFY ACROSS THE CENTRAL CONUS AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE STRENGTHENS ACROSS REGION. MAIN CHANGE DURING THE PERIOD WAS TO DELAY FRONTAL PASSAGE UNTIL TUESDAY VERSUS MONDAY WITH OPERATIONAL MODELS COMING INTO A BIT BETTER AGREEMENT REGARDING THIS FEATURE. AS A RESULT...HAVE BUMPED MAX TEMPS UP A DEGREE OR TWO SUNDAY AND PARTICULARLY MONDAY. INTRODUCED LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS NORTHERN CWA TUESDAY AS FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE SOUTH WITH AN APPROACHING SHORTWAVE TROUGH AT THAT TIME. 050 && .AVIATION... 500 PM MDT WED JUL 27 2011 FOR THE 00Z TAFS...EXPECTING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING INTO THE MORNING HOURS THROUGH MUCH OF THE REGION. WHILE THERE IS CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL NEAR KMCK...THE FORCING IS BETTER AT KGLD AND FURTHER SOUTH. HAVE CB GROUPS FOR KMCK IN THE TAFS...AND VCTS WITH A TEMPO GROUP FOR -TSRA AT KGLD. PREVAILING WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE VARIABLE AND LIGHT...BUT THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW MAY LEAD TO BRIEF STRONG WINDS...ESPECIALLY AT KGLD. AS THE TERMINALS RADIATE AND COOL OVERNIGHT...THERE IS A CHANCE FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF LOW CEILINGS AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES ACROSS THE REGION...BUT STILL LOOKS LIKE PREVAILING CONDITIONS AT THE TERMINALS WILL BE VFR. HAVE INCLUDED SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS BY 10Z AT BOTH TERMINALS. DURING THE DAYTIME...THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION...SO HAVE INCLUDED CB GROUPS AGAIN AT 14Z. CJS && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1026 AM MDT WED JUL 27 2011 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-281215- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1026 AM MDT WED JUL 27 2011 /1126 AM CDT WED JUL 27 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 104 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED EAST OF A LINE FROM NORTON THROUGH HILL CITY TO GOVE KANSAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:03 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm wind gust broke the back window out of a vehicle, bent a TV tower and moved a picnic table 20 feet.
A thunderstorm wind gust damaged a quonset building and moved a fuel tank.
A garage was destroyed, and three utility poles on the property were broken, as a result of a thunderstorm downburst. The time of the report is estimated from radar and a nearby 72 mph mesonet wind gust in Winona.
The spotter estimated peak winds to be near 60 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2011
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 318821, 318822, 318817, 318818, 318819.